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Mar 3
2 min

Healing privilege: the white guy’s role in racial equity

What role can straight, white, progressive men play in advancing racial equity? It wouldn’t seem to be our wheelhouse...or is it?

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Matt

Jan 22
3 min

Breaking the political cycle

We are committed to a cycle of political division and stagnation. Lasting change requires us to change hearts and minds-including our own.

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Matt

Dec 17, 2020
3 min

Mindfulness as political freedom

We must learn to take away others’ power to trigger us and replace it with our own power to be mature, grounded, open, curious and loving.

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Matt

Nov 5, 2020
3 min

Interdependently Trump

If I really believe all life is interdependent, doesn’t that mean Donald Trump is a part of me, like my hand is part of my body?

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Matt

Sep 26, 2019
3 min

In Nature, Waste is Never Wasted

Typically, we are discouraged to bring our humanness to work. Things like half-baked ideas, uncertainties, hopes, dreams, and personal chal

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Matt

Sep 19, 2019
3 min

Finding Our Sunlight

What is our sunlight--the free energy that powers us? What is the “photosynthesis” that transforms that energy so we can grow and flourish?

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Living Systems and Renewing the Promise of Philanthropy

Matt

Aug 19, 2019
6 min

Living Systems and Renewing the Promise of Philanthropy

Many of our beliefs about “how things work” create distortions that limit our effectiveness. Living Systems design principles can help.

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Healing privilege: the white guy’s role in racial equity

Breaking the political cycle

Mindfulness as political freedom

Interdependently Trump

In Nature, Waste is Never Wasted

Finding Our Sunlight

Living Systems and Renewing the Promise of Philanthropy

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